Wire bale-tie



D. H. MATHIAS.

(No Model.)

WIRE BALE TIE.

Patented July 12, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID H. MATHIAS, OF ALBANY, ASSIGNOR TO THE REED MANUFACTUR- ING COMPANY,

OF CANAJOHARIE, NEW YORK.

WlRE BALE-TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,635, dated July 12, 1887.

Application filed October 7, 1886. Serial No. 215,525.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, DAVID H. Marinas, a citizen of the United States, residing at Albany, in the county of Albany and State of New York, have invented anew and useful Iniprovement in \Vire Bale-Tics, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the hooks of wire bale-ties; and it consists of a book which is constructed wholly of wire and formed to contain the elements hereinafter particularly de scribed, and specifically set forth in the claim.

The objects of my invention .are to produce a wire baletie having a hook which is short in length, strong in its parts, so as to endure any strain to which the wire composing it may be subjected, withoutln'eaking, and simple in construction, so as to be cheaply produced. I attain these objects by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a view from above of the loop and hook ends of my improved tie. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Figs. 3 and 4 are views of the hook from the side opposite that shown in Fig. 2, and Fig. 5 is a view of the hook from its lower side.

The same letters of reference refer to like parts or elements in the several views.

0 Referring to the drawings, A represents the wire baleband, and B isa loop, made with one end of the same.

O is my improved hook, posite end of the wire band.

made with the oplhis hook G is 5 shown to be composed of two connected coils, a and c, and the connecting portions a and c, which connect these coils with twisted neck I). In the arrangement of the said coils a and c and their connections a c in relation to each 0 other and the twisted neck of the hook coil a is relatively above or at agreater distance from twisted neck 1) than the other coil, and its conneeting portion a, holding it in connection with the twisted neck, is braced by the portion 0 (which connects coil 0 with the twisted neck) bearing on the fore side of connect ing portion a, as at 1), while at the same time this braced connecting portion a of the outer coil operates to hold the latter bearing on the inner coil, 0, so as to re-enforce it in its hori- 5o zontal position over the twisted neck of the hook.

In the above-described form of construction and relative arrangement of parts or elements the connected coils a and 0 form astrong backturned holding-button, which will hold on the upper side of the bow of loop B without liability of being drawn through or being turned upward, and at the same time the connecting portions a 0, between their respective coils and the twisted neck, operate, by reason of their differences of curves and the relative planes on which their respective beginning and ending occurs, to produce ahook-bow between the coils and twisted neck, which can be 6 5 brought on the wire strand.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

A wire bale-tie consisting of the body portion A, having loop B at one end and hook O at the other, said hook formed of coils a and c lying over the twisted neck b, and the connecting parts a and c uniting said coils and neck, one of the members a c bracing the other, substantially as shown and described.

DAVID H. MATHIAS.

\Vitnessesz CHARLES SELKIRK, ARTHUR M. BUGDEN. 

